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    Airframe Family: Aeronca 7 Champion/Citabria / L-16 Grasshopper
    Latest Model:7EC Tri-Traveler
    Construction Number:7EC-551
    Last Civil Registration:N7489B
    Compressed ID:Aeronca 7EC cn 7EC-551 cr N7489B
    Latest Owner or Location:Ocean City Municipal Airport (KOXB), West Ocean City, Maryland

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a 7EC.

    24 January 1957

    Certificate of airworthiness for N7489B (7EC, 7EC-551) issued.

    6 April 2007


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Part of the collection of the Massey Air Museum (MD)

    31 August 2011

    To John W. Lumley, Boynton Beach, FL with new c/r N7489B.

    To Massey Air Museum, Massey, MD.
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    13 April 2013


    Photographer: Massey Aerodrome FlickR
    Notes: At Massey Aerodrome in Maryland

    2015

    Based at Ocean City Municipal Airport (KOXB), West Ocean City, MD.
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    William Dougherty
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